Early Years Practitioner (Supply)

Angus Council; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking enthusiastic early years practitioners for various locations throughout Angus. This role involves delivering flexible and high-quality education and care in local authority early learning and childcare settings. As a supply member of staff, you will be required to work on short notice, ensuring that the needs of young children and their families are met. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will make a significant impact on the lives of children. If you are passionate about early years education and ready for a rewarding challenge, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.
• Essential to have membership or commitment to the SSSC.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality early years education and care.
• Provide flexible services that meet the needs of young children and families.

Skills

Early Years Education

Childcare

Flexibility

Communication Skills

Education

Membership of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)

Commitment to gain PVG registration

Job description

Location: Various locations throughout Angus, DD8 1AX

Rate: £17.91 per hour

Contract Type: Supply/Casual/Relief

Position Type: Supply/Casual/Relief

Hours: 0 hours per week

Job Description

Based at Various locations throughout Angus.

The hourly rate includes payment for holidays. This is paid as a percentage of your hourly rate for the job and will be separately itemised on your pay slip. Successful applicants will be placed on our casual worker register and engaged to work as and when required depending on service need.

This job is workstyle 1 – Fixed.

In this workstyle most of your time is spent undertaking the direct delivery of front-line services work. Depending on your role there may be a limited requirement to access a specific council location during the course of the working week if you are not delivering your service at a council location.

Angus Council currently operates the following models in their early learning and childcare settings:

ELC Model 1 – children’s funded entitlement is 190 set days at 6 hours per day
ELC Model 2 – children’s funded entitlement is 152 set days at 7½ hours per day
ELC Model 3 – children’s funded entitlement is 228 set days at 5 hours per day

ELC settings in models 1 and 2 are open over term-time.

ELC Model 3 is different as these settings are open for more hours every day and offer ELC over 46.6 weeks of the year.

We are seeking enthusiastic early years practitioners to work in all of our local authority early learning and childcare settings throughout Angus on an as required basis. As a supply member of staff, availability to cover in these settings is important as this will be required at short notice.

Working within early level, you will deliver a flexible, high quality, stimulating education and care-centred service which meets the needs of young children and their families.

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.

Requirements

Membership of the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) or commitment to gain registration with the SSSC in accordance with their requirements is essential.

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.